Jim Moran (Kris Connor/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images) Not a joke. He actually believes that they desreve more money.

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WASHINGTON — Members of Congress make $174,000 a year, but retiring Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., says that’s not enough.

Moran tells CQ Roll Call that members need bigger paychecks because they have to maintain two residences — one in their home district, and one in Washington.   Continue reading “Moran: $174K a year is not enough for members of Congress”

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Rep. Mike Pompeo will introduce legislation backed by powerful trade groups to prevent states from passing laws requiring the labeling of genetically-modified foods, according to reports. The bill is linked to biotech giant Monsanto and Koch Industries.

Pompeo will offer the bill in the US House before Congress leaves for Easter recess later this month, The Hill newspaper reported, citing industry sources. Politico also reported on the impending proposal. Pompeo’s office would not comment on the congressman’s intentions for a labeling restriction.   Continue reading “Koch ally to introduce Monsanto-backed bill to bar state GMO labeling laws”

AP journalist Anja Niedringhaus who was killed in AfghanistanThe Guardian – by Emma Graham-Harrison

An Afghan police officer has shot dead a foreign photographer and badly injured another in the country’s violent east, as they were covering preparations for the country’s presidential election.

The man opened fire on Anja Niedringhaus and Kathy Gannon from theAssociated Press in a police headquarters in Khost province, after the women arrived with a convoy of election materials on Friday.   Continue reading “Two Associated Press journalists shot in Afghanistan”

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Los Angeles, CA—I have a deep and unending love for Europe especially, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria and of course Switzerland.  The culture, art and elegance of Europe are only matched by their terrific and productive people.

The 18 months I spent in Aschaffenburg, Germany in my youth serving as an Army medical corpsman as part of my compulsory military service was nothing less than pure joy for me.    Continue reading “My Dear European Friends Have Grave Concerns About Gun Liberty”

Image: Rommates Explain Police Encounter (Fox13now.com).Fox 13 Salt Lake City – by Gene Kennedy

MIDVALE, Utah — Two University of Utah students say Unified Police officers had no business handcuffing them in their Midvale apartment.

They said they were treated like criminals in their own home. Police entered the residence a week ago because the front door was open. Cops said they have a duty to investigate if they’ve announced themselves and no one responds.   Continue reading “Students say cops entered residence, handcuffed occupants without cause”

Fox News – by Jay Sekulow

Our “pen and phone” president is at it again.

The Department of Commerce, in a Friday night release, signaled that it was going to give up American control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which assigns and maintains domain names and web addresses for the Internet.   Continue reading “Why would Obama risk Internet freedom? Time for Congress to step up”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

It appears the U.S. government is doing its best to ensure that nobody anywhere in any corner of planet earth will ever trust American technology again (or U.S. aid for that matter). This process of distrust first really got going with the Edward Snowden revelations, which demonstrated that essentially all major U.S. tech firms are mere wards of the state with little to no privacy protections, and absolutely zero backbone.   Continue reading “Conspiracy Fact – How the U.S. Government Covertly Invented a “Cuban Twitter” to Create Revolution”

The Kansas City Star – by TONY RIZZO

The mother of a 21-year-old man shot to death last year by Kansas City police officers filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday.

The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City says police used unreasonable and excessive force when they shot Waylen Wealot while they were in the 4000 block of East 11th Street.   Continue reading “Federal lawsuit is filed over fatal shooting by Kansas City police”

EUUSGlobal Research – by Colin Todhunter

The Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) between the US and EU aims to ‘protect’ investment and remove ‘unnecessary regulatory barriers’. Corporate interests are driving the agenda, the public have been sidelined and unaccountable, pro-free-trade bureaucrats are facilitating the strategy (1). 

 There is growing concern that the negotiations could result in the opening of the floodgates for GMOs and shale gas (fracking) in Europe, the threatening of digital and labour rights and the empowering of corporations to legally challenge a wide range of regulations which they dislike.   Continue reading “The US-EU Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA). Devastating Social and Environmental Consequences”

closeup of crumpled United States Social Security cardAOL –  by Jim Finkle and Karen Freifeld

(Reuters) – U.S. attorneys general have launched a multi-state investigation into a breach in which criminals gained access to a repository of some 200 million social security numbers through a unit of data provider Experian Plc.

“We are investigating,” said Maura Possley, a spokeswoman for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. “It’s part of a multistate investigation.”   Continue reading “U.S. states probing security breach at Experian unit”

Prevent Disease – by DAVE MIHALOVIC

Doctors and pharmaceutical companies make money from it. That’s the only reason chemotherapy is still used. Not because it’s effective, decreases morbidity, mortality or diminishes any specific cancer rates. In fact, it does the opposite. Chemotherapy boosts cancer growth and long-term mortality rates. Most chemotherapy patients either die or are plagued with illness within 10-15 years after treatment. It destroys their immune system, increases neuro-cognitive decline, disrupts endocrine functioning and causes organ and metabolic toxicities. Patients basically live in a permanent state of disease until their death. The cancer industry marginalizes safe and effective cures while promoting their patented, expensive, and toxic remedies whose risks far exceed any benefit. This is what they do best, and they do it because it makes money, plain and simple.   Continue reading “97 Percent of The Time, Chemotherapy Does Not Work And Continues To Be Used Only For One Reason”

insanity wars peaceFree-Man’s Perspective – by Paul Rosenberg

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

– Albert Einstein (attributed)

The insane dream has streamed endlessly through my lifetime. I saw it as a boy, and I see it still. It has never really produced any results, and it certainly shows no promise of doing so in the near future.   Continue reading “The Insane Dream”